Hempson Harp Quotes & Sayings

Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose. — Priscilla Shirer

There were no laptops or handheld devices in class. Ilgauskas didn't exclude them; we did, sort of, unspokenly. Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here. They were an assault on the environment, which was defined by length, width, and depth, with time drawn out, computed in heartbeats. — Don DeLillo

If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess... — Virginia Alison

The moral system of a college fraternity turns out to be classically tribal, i.e., characterized by a deeply felt sense of honor, discretion, and loyalty to one's so-called 'brothers,' coupled with a complete, sociopathic lack of regard for the interests or even humanity of anyone outside that fraternal set. — David Foster Wallace

Part of the scandal of American Christianity is that statistically the U.S. is the most Christian country in the world, and yet as a country we have the greatest income inequality in the world. And as a country we are uncritically committed, not simply to being the most powerful nation in the world militarily, but to being as militarily powerful as the rest of the world combined.
We Christians live in a tradition that is passionate about issues of economic justice and peace and yet at least half of American Christians, probably even more, think it's really important that we be as powerful as the rest of the world put together. — Marcus J. Borg

the story of these men of the Second World War is another — Nathan M. Greenfield

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. — Isaac D'Israeli

The purpose of risk management is to improve the future, not to explain the past. — Andrew Jaquith

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. — Eric Allin Cornell

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. — Helio Gracie